The Queen was allegedly reduced to tears by the Duke of Edinburgh’s “brutal
attitude” when he was not allowed to pass his name on to their children, a
biography has claimed.

Sally Bedell Smith, who has previously written biographies of the Kennedys and
the Clintons, cites an entry in Harold Macmillan’s diary, in which the Prime
Minister wrote: “The Queen only wishes (properly enough) to do something to
please her husband — with whom she is desperately in love.

“What upsets me ... is the Prince’s almost brutal attitude to the Queen over
all this ... I shall never forget what she said